“Over the last decade, three clinical paradoxes relating to women and heart disease have been recognized.
First, despite having more symptoms of heart disease, women have less obstructive angiographic coronary artery disease (CAD) compared with men.
Second, women with obstructive CAD have less typical symptoms of heart disease
Third women with obstructive CAD have poorer outcomes compared with men.”
The treatment is different also. The lifestyle measures and medications in the optimal medical therapy (OMT) protocol stabilize plaque and reduce microvascular dysfunction. OMT is highly effective treatment for heart artery disease in women. Let’s work together to make it available.
“Obstructive angiographic coronary artery disease” has been an obsession for the entire cardiology world, because it’s visible as a shining object delivering profits. This obsession has completely high jacked the true underlying causes of myocardial ischemia, mainly stemming from the metabolic diseases, obesity, and other factors such as tobacco smoking, infectious causes, and or environmental toxins. Myocardial ischemia probably is the true number one cause of deaths, obstructive CAD leads to probably 10-15% of the total numbers of people die from complications due to late stage misdiagnosed long term myocardial ischemia. This fundamental misinformation due to this wrong headed obsession profiteering is the root of the problem, leading to the claim that “angiographic CAD” is the number cause of deaths of people to scary people. This is pure propaganda. The number one cause of deaths is actually functional myocardial ischemia due to obesity.